Syrup-pitcher.



No. 772,207. PATDNTDD 00T. 11, 1904.

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SYRUP PITCHER. APPLIGATIOD FILED 11111.11. 1904.

Patented October 11, 1904.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MCDUFFEE BRADFORD, OF NOCONA, TEXAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of VLetters Patent No. 772,207, dated October 11, 1904.

Application filed January 11, 1904. Serial No. 188,510. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MCDUTFEE BRADFORD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nocona, in the county of Montague and State of Texas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Syrup-Pitchers, of which the follow.- ing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in syrup-pitchers; and the object of the same is to construct a device having a movable lip and means for operating it to release the overiiow of the syrup and permit it to run back into the pitcher when closed.

The simple and novel construction employed by me in carrying out my invention is fully described and claimed in this specication and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved pitcher with the lid open. cal longitudinal section of the same with the lid closed. Fig. 3 is a detail of the lip and bail.

The numeral 1 designates the pitcher, having a contracted neck 2, surmounted by a ring 3, rigidly secured to the rim thereof. The ring 3 has an inwardly-extending downwardlyinclined liange 4, which covers the edge of and extends flush with o'r beyond the inner wall of the throat of the pitcher. Apertured ears 5 are formed on the iiange4 and located approximately diametrically opposite each other to serve as attachments for a circular lip 6, hinged to said cars by short pintles 7. The lower edge of the lip 6 is located above the top of the inner edge 4 of the {iange 4, which thereby serves to limit the downward movement of the lip and stopl it -in a vertical position when at the limit of its movement.

In order to operate the lip 6, a circular bail 8 is rigidly attached at its extremities to the lip. Eyes 8u are formed on the bail 8 and surround the pintles 7 to strengthen the hinges of the lip. A lid 9 for the pitcher is'hinged atl() to the ring 3 at a point equally distant from the hinges of the lip 6, and a spring 11 serves to operate the hinge to close the cover 9. To operate the bail 8 by the opening of the cover 9, a resilient arm` 12 is rigidly at- Fig. 2 is a verti- A coil 13 is sition, as shown in Fig. 2, the arms 12 will hold the bail 8 down, which action will tilt the lip 6 up clear of the rim 4 and prevent the damming up of the overiiow of the syrup by the lip on the flange 4, as is usual, where it soon turns to sugar. On opening the lid 9 by the use of the thumb-piece 9a the bail 8 will be raised up through the action of the arm 12, thereby actuating the lip 6 to bring it into a position perpendicular to the ring 3 and engaging the inner edge 4 thereof. The lip 6 will then be in position to guide the syrup poured out. When all that is required has been poured out, the cover 9 is released and will be shut by the springs 10 and 13, thereby raising the center of the lip 6. clear of the iiange 4 and permitting the overow to run backinto the pitcher.

I do not wish to be limited as to details of construction, .as these may be Varied in many particulars without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a syrup-pitcher, the combination with a neck surrounded by an inwardly-extending flange bearing apertured ears, a lip hinged to said ears and located to engage the inner edge being normally upreised from said flange, a my hand in presence of two subscribing Withinged or pivoted lid, a bail with its ends Xed nesses. to said lip, and an arm centrally pvoted to said bail and xed to said lid and having a MCDUFFEE BRADFORD' 5 coiled or looped spring intermediately of its Witnesses:

points of connection with said lid and bail. A. B. BARLoW,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set JOHN M. DRAKE; 

